NE1 have pictures/video of inversions as experienced in Eagle Mountain? (Provo: live in, safer)

[Vegas-to-?]

Does anyone here happen to have any pictures or videos of the inversions as seen or experienced from within Eagle Mountain? Other question, how far in all directions (north, south, east, west) do the inversions extend? Would someone be safer in Santaquin, or perhaps Ogden?

[CCSLC]

Inversions exist anywhere there is a valley surrounded by mountains, so the inversions extend as far as the valleys/mountain ranges extend: the Salt Lake Valley, Ogden Valley, Cache Valley, Utah Valley.

The severity of pollution trapped in the inversion within those valleys, however, depends on the height of the mountains around the valley, the amount of pollutant released, and the temperature difference between the air near the ground and the air above the cap.

Even though there are fewer people (meaning fewer drivers) and less polluting industry in Cache Valley, it often has worse air than the more industrial (and more populated) Salt Lake and Utah valleys because the mountains are higher and the ground air is colder in Cache.

On some bad air days, Ogden might be better than Provo and Salt Lake. On the next bad air day (or series of days), Provo will be better than Ogden but worse than Salt Lake. There are too many variables to tell you "the air is better in ______ as compared to _______." It all just depends. Unless you're outside the Wasatch Front entirely (that is, out of an inversion-prone valley), you'll experience an inversion to some degree at some time... and that degree changes daily.

[dcisive]

I would certainly agree with that. There have been days the south end of the SL Valley near where I live in Herriman was pretty clear, and just around the bend in the Orem/Provo area it was like pea soup. It sure does vary quite a bit. Happily more often than not being on the hill side up a ways helps over in Herriman as I can well see the junk traps first from the I-15 area to the East Bench gradually moving West.